Edward Mason HOPSON

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Service Number:	WX9241
Enlisted:	30 October 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Albany, Western Australia , 17 February 1909
Home Town:	Albany, Albany, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese , Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies, 26 April 1944, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Singapore Memorial, Column 136, Singapore
Memorials:	Albany War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Singapore Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, WX9241
30 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX9241, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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